Worry Hinders Our Faith

According to our nation's Bureau of Standards, a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a depth of a hundred feet contains less than one glass of ...

Purpose in Chaos

There are, in every situation, two factors: there is what happens, and there is how we take what happens. How we take what happens goes back to what kind ...

Trying to Use the Wrong Plans

You heard about the man who asked a mail-order company to send plans for a birdhouse. Instead of sending him the plans for a birdhouse, they sent him ...

Sound and Fury That Signifies Something

One of the great treats to me in this last Thanksgiving break was a television concert presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was Eugene Ormandy's ...

Many Faces of Grief

Author Edgar Jackson poignantly describes grief:

Grief is a young widow trying to raise her three children, alone. Grief is the man so filled with shocked ...

Faith in Action

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

Research on Communication

"Great Sermon, Pastor, I Didn't Understand a Word!"

J. Scott Armstrong, associate professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

Get on Board

You know what a lot of religious people are like? They are like a lot of people sitting around a railroad station thinking they are on a train. Everybody ...

A Groom By Any Other Name

Quoted from Pastoral Life magazine: My pastor and I were talking about the advisability of writing down the names of the bride and groom and keeping them ...

Jitters at the Altar

Two ministers were discussing the advisability of writing down the names of brides and grooms to aid their memory at the ceremony. One man said, "I ...